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Apparently the Tablet market has hit a plateau..

I was in a conversation at work with someone who’s opinion i respect, and he’s read that the Tablet has plateaued in sales..

Well to be honest i’m not surprised. 

for 10 years Bill Gates/Microsot tried to make Tablet computers, and failed, 2 years ago Apple brought us the tablet called the iPad. 

And then?

Well, nothing really, ok, a slew of under powered Android tablets which the bean counters got hold of and stripped out the grunt, and put out at an overpriced sales point. 

Then, HP took the 3rd option, mis marketed, dropped the ball and pulled out of WebOS.

So really there hasn’t been a tablet market has there. just a market leader, so comfortable in their product with limited or no competition, so no need to innovate for now… and a string of also rans..

To make an iPad competitor there is however a simple formula

$100 + WebOS..

As HP have just found the perfect Tablet pricepoint, they now have one of the fastest selling tablets out there, and set a price point, sub $200. And this is good news, especially if your name is Amazon..

The Tablet market doesn’t exist to plateau just yet, however i believe it will in 18 months it will. Not to replace the Laptop, however it will to act as a secondary device, then we can see the 2nd wave. Learning from the mistakes of the past

  • Widescreen doesn’t work
  • the iPad ratio does
  • Apps are key
  • Browsing the web is essential
  • Price is important
  • Brand is essential.

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A LINK

Stop! You’re All Mad! WebOS Is Better Than Android!

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Don’t listen to the masses. Buy the TouchPad (if you can find one) and enjoy webOS. It’s an amazing OS killed off by natural selection, like a beautiful peacock with a rare and debilitating reproductive problem. It has the swankiness of iOS, the multitasking of Android all built by the folks that started it all, Palm. The Internet is being overran by Android nerds. Don’t listen to them.

The TouchPad was doomed from the start. Tablets, outside of the iPad, are a niche device that attempt to justify their existence by replicating notebook functions on a slate form factor. They just don’t make sense without a robust app marketplace. A consumer can buy an iPad and never touch the web browser because of the sheer amount of useful and fun apps. That’s not the case with Android, BlackBerry, or webOS devices. These platforms, while fully functional and vibrant as any smartphone OS, did not prep for the transition to a 10-inch, thus the weakest of them will die an early death from poor consumer acceptance.

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